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Sudan expels 2 UN officials
KHARTOUM/CAIRO, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Sudan on Tuesday declared two senior officials of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) personae non gratae and ordered them to leave the country within 72 hours, the official SUNA news agency reported. The Ministry...
Why the worst civilian government is still better than the best military regime
BY NNAA KALU NTO When recent unconfirmed rumours of a failed coup attempt swept across Nigeria, something deeply troubling surfaced; not just the fear of instability, but the quiet excitement among a few Nigerians who, in their frustration,...
El-Fasher's Fall to RSF Risks New Sudan Split, Warn Analysts
A sense of optimism is growing within Lebanon’s security establishment that 2026 could mark the end of the country’s “drug world,” a shadow economy born out of the Lebanese civil war and fueled by the conflicts that followed. Those wars created an...
Maternity hospital massacre leaves 460 dead: Fresh horror in Sudan as patients and staff are butchered, after 2,000 civilians were executed in two days
A maternity hospital massacre in Sudan has left 460 people dead just days after a 48-hour killing spree saw over 2,000 civilians executed by paramilitary rebels. The World Health Organisation said the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, the...
Anti-Israel voices ignore Hamas’ lies and crimes in Gaza and the genocidal actions of radical Muslims in Sudan — it simply doesn’t fit their agenda
The sister's daughter of Al-Rasheed Al-Tahir, a displaced Sudanese man, cries after hearing her mother's story, after the family fled the war-torn al-Fashir city, as the humanitarian situation deteriorates amid the ongoing conflict between the...
Trump has 'leverage' to stop Sudan killings as satellite images reveal mass deaths: Yale researchers
Thousands of refugees have fled to camps in Kassala in eastern Sudan. (Credit: MERCY CORPS) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New satellite images show what appears to be bloodstains on sand and bodies strewn across El Fasher, North...
UN calls for end to Sudan siege after hospital killings
UN chief António Guterres has called for an immediate end to military escalation in Sudan after reports that more than 460 people were shot dead in a maternity hospital by paramilitary forces. Mohammad Hamdan Daglo, the head of the Rapid Support...
Sudan Red Crescent says 5 volunteers killed, 3 missing in North Kordofan amid RSF attacks
KHARTOUM / ISTANBUL The Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) said Tuesday that five of its volunteers were killed and three others remain missing in the central city of Bara in North Kordofan state amid attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support...
'Our children are dying': Rare footage shows plight of civilians in besieged Sudan city
Barbara Plett UsherAfrica correspondent, BBC News ShareSave Watch: BBC obtains rare video from inside besieged el-Fasher in Sudan The women at the community kitchen in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher are sitting in huddles of desperation....
Sudan: Red Cross 'horrified' after volunteers killed in Kordofan
Red Cross charities said three other volunteers are missing following Monday's attack in Kordofan [Getty/file photo] The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Tuesday it was "horrified" after five Sudanese Red...
Sudan militia implicated in war crimes used UK military equipment, UN told
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has used British military equipment, according to documents seen by the UN Security Council, the Guardian reported. British-manufactured small-arms target systems and engines for armoured personnel...
Al Misnad, Sudan Minister discuss humanitarian situation in El Fasher
Doha: Minister of State for International Cooperation H E Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser Al Misnad held a phone call with Minister of State at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Welfare of Sudan, Dr. Salma Ishaq Al Khalifa, who is also...
Sudanese army cedes Darfur to paramilitary group amid fears of mass killings
Sudanese people are pictured after fleeing from an internally displaced persons camp, which have been set up during the ongoing civil war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces, in North Darfur, Sudan, in April. The...
Africa’s Democratic Recession and Resurgence: The Case of Tanzania
Africa’s post-colonial promise of democratization that began in the 1980s and 1990s with the “second independence” struggles now confronts a defining and painful reckoning. The optimism that accompanied the collapse of single-party states,...
Sudan’s Health Ministry condemns RSF ‘massacres’ against civilians in El-Fasher
KHARTOUM / ISTANBUL The Sudanese Health Ministry denounced Tuesday “massacres” carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against civilians and healthcare workers in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state. “We condemn in the...
Images From Space Allegedly Reveal Bloody Streets, Piles of Bodies Brutally Murdered in Sudan's El Fasher
The city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan, has become the latest focal point of a devastating humanitarian emergency. After more than eighteen months of siege, the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured El...
Washington’s ‘Blob’ is helping whitewash Sudan’s war crimes
Ben Rhodes, a former United States deputy national security adviser under President Barack Obama, famously called Washington’s foreign policy establishment “the Blob” to describe its entrenched ecosystem of think tanks, former officials,...
Blood, pile of corpses from Sudan massacre visible from space
A humanitarian crisis has been unfolding in Sudan that the world has seemingly shut its eyes to. Such is the scale of the killings in El Fasher city in North Darfur, which has been captured by militia Rapid Support Forces (RSF), that blood and the...
Explainer: What does strategic Darfur city's fall mean for Sudan's deadly civil war
CAIRO, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- The capital of Sudan's North Darfur State, El Fasher, has fallen to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) following the withdrawal of the national army -- a major turning point in the country's two-and-a-half-year...
UN calls for end to Sudan siege after over 460 people were killed at maternity hospital
UN chief Antonio Guterres called for an immediate end to military escalation in Sudan on Thursday (October 30, 2025) after reports that more than 460 people were shot dead in a maternity hospital by paramilitary forces. Mohammad Hamdan Daglo, the...